NORTH-EASTERN STATES

Two ethnic northeast tribes bag national awards in agriculture sector

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In a first, two ethnic tribes from the northeast bagged two national Awards inagriculture sector, under the Leadership ofAssam Agricultural University(AAU).

The Centre conferred the ‘Plant Genome Saviour Community Award’ to Dhonsuri Agril farmer cooperative Society of Karbi tribe and ‘Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Recognition award’ to Boloram Sorongsa of Dimasa tribe for their contribution in the agricultural sector.

The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, established by the Central government, under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001, confers the ‘Plant Genome Saviour Community Award’ annually on the basis of short listing and site verification of the applications received from the community of farmers/farming community-based organizations who have a long track record for conserving plant agro-.
Similarly, the authority confers the ‘Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Recognition’ award to the farmers engaged in the conservation of genetic Resources of landraces and wild relatives of economic Plants and their improvement through selection and preservation and the material so selected and preserved has been used as donors of gene in varieties registered under the PPV & FR Act, 2001.”

Centre signs peace pact with Manipur-based insurgent groupThe Central government has signed a peace agreement with Manipur-based insurgent group agreed to end violence and joined the peaceful democratic process in New Delhi.

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It further informed that this will be a significant boost to the peace process in Manipur. The peace agreement was signed by senior officers of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the government of Manipur with the representatives of ZUF in the august presence of Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh. According to the Union Home Ministry, the agreement provides for rehabilitation and re-settlement of armed cadres.

Assam Rifles felicitates 94-year-old Padma Shri awardee Lalbiakthanga PachuauNinety-four-year old journalist Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, who was awarded recently with the country’s fourth-highest civilian award Padma Shri, was felicitated by Assam Rifles.

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A brief felicitation function was held at ASSAM RIFLES base in Aizawl’s Khatla locality during which the war veteran turned journalist was honoured with a trophy and other rewards. Pachuau was declared the “oldest working journalist in India” by Mizoram’s Information and Public Relations Department and Mizoram Journalists’ Association (MJA) in 2016.

Bio-village 2.0 brings applaud for Tripura

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Tripurahas been lauded for having the first modified bio-village in the country with the use of eco-friendly technology and assembling , agri and agri-allied, aqua support and maximum use of non-renewable sources of energy.
A London-based international non-government research organisation Climate Group working across the country recognised the eco-friendly technology used in the bio-village as one of the 10 best practices in the world.

This is one of the five successful bio-village 2.0 conceptualised in Tripura after the BJP-led government came to power and adopted the Climate Change mitigation endeavour of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Tripura has already implemented the bio-village 2.0 components across 10 villages where over a thousand marginalised people were targeted to modify their lifestyle and livelihood to an adaptive behaviour of nature-based technology promoted by the directorate of bio-technology.

Allow 29 medical students to enroll in Assam, Meghalaya

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As the ethnic strife worsens in violence-hitManipur, theRegional Institute of Medical Sciences(RIMS), Imphal, has sent an SOS to the Union Health ministry, urging authorities to facilitate 29 medical students in UG and PG classes inMeghalayaand Assam, saying the situation was not conducive for them to return to class in the roiled state.

These tribal students fled Imphal during the violence and feared returning andRIMS Imphalconveyed to the ministry that alternate arrangement of classes in the institute or in other institutes in the state may not be feasible.

In a letter to joint secretary (NE) of health ministry on Friday, RIMS deputy director (admin) Naorem Indrakumar Singh said the classes of UG and PG students resumed in RIMS Imphal since May 22, but 29 UG and PG students (17 MBBS UG, six BDS UG and six PG students) are now unable to attend classes/duties due to the prevailing unrest.

The deputy director said alternate arrangement of classes in RIMS Imphal or in any institute of the Manipur government may not be feasible and sought the ministry’s intervention in making alternative arrangements outside the state, including seeking permission from the NMC for the affected students to continue their study in NEIGRIHMS in Shillong, six BDS UG students in Regional Dental College in Guwahati and six PG students at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital or another institutes.


India has consistent policy to treat Dalai Lama as an honoured guest: MEA

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India has a consistent policy of treating the Dalai Lama as a respected religious leader and an honoured guest in the country, theministry of external affairssaid.

The assertion, in response to a question, came two days after Prime MinisterNarendra Modicalled up the Tibetan spiritual leader and greeted him on his 86th birthday.

The 14th Dalai Lama has made India his Home since fleeing China in 1959. The Chinese government officials and the Dalai Lama or his representatives have not met in formal negotiations since 2010.
Beijing has in the past accused the Dalai Lama of indulging in “separatist” activities and trying to split Tibet and considers him as a divisive figure.

IMD to set up 100 weather stations in Arunachal Pradesh, near LAC

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The IMD along with the Centre for Earth Sciences andHimalayan Studies(CES & HS) will install 100 automatic weather stations (AWSs) and automatic rain gauge stations (ARGs) for weather predictions in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, some of which may come up in the most inaccessible places close to the LAC bordering China, IMD officials said.
An MoU to this effect was signed between IMD and CES & HS, Arunachal Pradesh government in Itanagar on Monday in the presence of Union minister of earth sciences Kiren Rijiju. “People of Arunachal Pradesh will be benefited with precise weather forecasts and warnings with the increase in meteorological observations in the state,” said Rijiju.


Researchers discover new species of tree in Arunachal PradeshResearchers have discovered a new species of tree in Arunachal Pradesh. The discovery of the new tree species in Arunachal Pradesh was published in the May 19 edition of the Edinburgh Journal of Botany. Meiogyne Arunachalensis was discovered by researchers during a biodiversity expedition to the “Adi hills of Arunachal Pradesh,” the report published in the journal said, adding that the expedition was supported by the Hem Chand Mahindra Foundation, the Wildlife Institute of India, and Forest department of Arunachal Pradesh.Researcher Navendu Page, one of the members of the group, mentioned in the report that this is the third species from India and the first from eastern Himalayan and Northeast India. “The genus Meiogyne is distributed throughout South and Southeast Asia and includes approximately 33 described taxa,” Page said. The species shows morphological similarity with Meiogyne maxiflora, a species distributed in Thailand, but it differs in a number of vegetative and reproductive characteristics, Page said in the report.

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Estimated 4,000-6,000 refugees from Myanmar sought safety in India: UN

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An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in India, a spokesperson for the UN chief has said, as the world body voiced concern over the rising levels of displacement of people since the military coup in the country.

TheUnited Nations Refugee Agency(UNHCR) said that in Myanmar, as of last week, approximately 60,700 Women, children and men have been internally displaced.

Myanmar an over 1,600 km long unfenced and porous land border with India as well as a maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal. Four North-Eastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur andMizoramshare the international boundary with Myanmar.